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Language of Description: English
Country: Czechia

  1. Archiv města Chlumec nad Cidlinou

    • Archives of the Town of Chlumec nad Cidlinou / NAD 567

    The fonds covers the history of the town of Chlumec nad Cidlinou. It is relatively large, but due to poor storage, part of the fonds was damaged. It contains deeds, official books, file material, accounting material, and other documents. The register mentions Jews (foreigners' notices of moving in and out, and files of Václav Abraham, the merchant, and of Václav Sladkus, inv. no. 1109, 1110). The fonds contains processed files of the Jewish merchant Václav Abraham inv. no. 173 (inheritance book 1833-1853/1883). Furthermore, the Jews are mentioned in inv. no. 281-285 (books of the dead 1850-...

  2. Správa hřbitovů a krematoria města Plzně

    • Administration of the Cemeteries and Crematorium, Pilsen / NAD 569
    • Archiv města Plzně
    • 569
    • English
    • 1806-2007
    • Textual material Moving Images 19,91 linear meters

    The fonds contains documents of the Funeral Service of the City of Pilsen and the Administration of the Cemeteries and Crematorium, namely official books, files and plans of Pilsen cemeteries. Judaica: The plan of the Christian and Jewish cemetery in Pilsen 1907 (Inv. No. 245), A list of buried Jews in the Israeli department of the Central Cemetery Pilsen 1940-1942 (Inv. No. 400.A/1), the establishment of the Israeli department of the cemetery from 1899 (Inv. No. 400.A/2), the correspondence with the Jewish Religious Community in Pilsen from 1896-1956, an attack against the Jewish prayer ho...

  3. Okresní úřad Kolín I

    • District Office of Kolin I / NAD 57

    The fonds contains documents concerning the economy, agriculture, business, and industry in the district of Kolín between 1850 and 1948, official books, files and accounting material. An important part of the fonds includes presidium files. There are relevant files on religious matters there from 1850–1936 (Group 5). For the years of 1924–1936, there is a section on the Jewish church (inv. No. 843, call number 5/4). There can also be found lists of the Jewish population from 1942 (inv. No. 1104, call number 7/33/a), statements on the change of residence of Jewish persons (1939–1943), notifi...

  4. Archiv města Luhačovice

    • Luhačovice Town Archives / NAD 570

    The fonds contains documents of the municipality of Luhačovice, official books, files, and accounting material. Jews began to settle in Luhačovice permanently after 1848, until then they visited Luhačovice only during the spa season. Information on Jews can be found in the Luhačovice Archive fonds in individual documents: permission for Jews to use a hall for services 1845; Jewish religious community: model statutes, a request for the establishment of a prayer house 1934; the building commission for the construction of the synagogue and hospital 1928. From the Holocaust period: a list of Je...

  5. Archiv obce Tršice

    • Archive of the Municipality of Tršice / NAD 595

    The fonds contains relatively comprehensive documents of the self-government of the municipality of Tršice. The files of the fonds contains anti-Jewish decrees and regulations and lists of Jews deported in June 1942 to Terezín, all from 1941–1943.

  6. Archiv města Kaňk

    • Archives of the Town of Kaňk / NAD 6

    The fonds is the basic source for understanding the political, economic, social and cultural development of the town from the 15th century to 1945. It contains deeds, official books, file material, and accounting material. Information on Jews can also be found in the agenda from the pre-municipal office period of the 18th century. In general, church affairs (1850-1944), in particular, are relevant, specifically inv. no. 1195, the period 1850-1944 Church affairs - priests, cooperator, visitations, festivities, choir, fields, registry affairs, Jews. Explicit mentions of Jews can then be found...

  7. Úřad československého delegáta v komisi pro stíhání válečných zločinců

    • The Office of the Czechoslovak delegate in the Commission for Prosecution of War Criminals
    • ÚD
    • NAD 615
    • Národní archiv
    • 615
    • English
    • 15 linear metres of documents from which 11 are processed and inventoried, 4 are not processed. The fonds is accessible.

    The fonds contains the documents and files coming from the office functioning and administration, incomplete records of the International Military Tribunal sessions (hearings and interrogations, various summaries), documentary materials for the trials (such as documents against K. von Neurath or K. H. Frank, documents of investigation and hunt for war criminals), incomplete lists of war criminals, and the correspondence of Bohumil Ečer and his assistant.

  8. Archiv městečka Malenovice a Místní národní výbor Malenovice

    • Malenovice Town Archives and the Malenovice National Committee / NAD 620

    The fonds contains documents of the municipality self-government. With its scope, it belongs to the fonds of small towns. It contains only particulars about Jews: anti-semitic lectures by the Vlajka organization and the post-war investigation of their members 1940–1945: announcements, lectures “Judaism and Modern Nationalism,” Czech Labor Front, speaker Vykydal from Želechovice, 20 July 1940; "Jews and London must be tried by the People's Court", convened by Jaroslav Pagáč from Zlín, 6 December 1941; the issue of handing over German and Czech members of the Vlajka by the Security Commission...

  9. Archiv města Habry

    • Archives of the Town of Habry / NAD 621

    The fonds contains documents, legal books, minutes of the council board and council, the municipal agenda, the agenda of municipal institutes and other documents. The period after 1850: the memorial book contains numerous information about the Jewish community, synagogue, and prominent natives - Adolf Stránský, A.G. Stránský, and others. In other documents (especially meetings of the council board and council): reconstruction of the synagogue, economic agenda, Jewish enterprises - Lazar Pick and sons, Werfel & Böhm Comp. The period of 1938-1945: decrees against Jews, list of Jews and Je...

  10. Archiv města Berouna

    • The Archives of the Town of Beroun / NAD 63

    The fonds contains documents of the Beroun Municipal Office, deeds, official books, file material, and accounting material. Jews are explicitly mentioned in the following documents: inv. no. 3792 Jewish Oath (1723); Inv. no. 1680 Jews, marriage and residence permits (1836-1849); Inv. no. 2264 Jews - list of Jewish houses, Aryanization of Jewish property (1940-1948); Inv. no. 2264 File of Beroun Jews (in box no. 681) 1942; Inv. no. 2279 Jewish School (1948); Inv. no. 3657 Domicile protocol for the born persons of the Jewish faith (1842-1848); inv. no. 3853 Jews, marriage and residence permit...

  11. Československý červený kříž, Londýn

    • Czechoslovak Red Cross, London
    • ČsČK-L
    • NAD 634
    • Národní archiv
    • 634
    • English
    • 1940-1945
    • The collection consists of 25 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents.

    The collection primarily consists of organisational material of the Czechoslovak Red Cross, including its main offices in London and its branches, as well as documents concerning their tasks. The annual report provides information about the medical and social care of Czechoslovak citizens in exile. The most important Holocaust-related documents in the collection of the Czechoslovak Red Cross - London include the card files and directories of Czechoslovak Jews who were interned in concentration camps erected shortly after the Reichskristallnacht in the Sudetengau, of Jews who were interned i...

  12. Okresní národní výbor Tábor

    • District National Committee of Tábor / NAD 65

    The fonds is linked to the Tábor District Office. It contains documents concerning municipal affairs, population movements, emigration, domicile right, education, health, police, construction, poverty, charity, agriculture, trades, finance and the military. Jews are explicitly mentioned in the following documents: persecution of Jews during the Nazi occupation (lists made in 1947); Jewish religious community - members of the leadership in Tábor 1948; territorial organization of churches - Jewish religious community 1949-1989.

  13. Pomocný výbor pro uprchlíky, Paříž

    • Committee for Refugee Assistance in Paris
    • PVU
    • NAD 658
    • Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés
    • Národní archiv
    • 658
    • English
    • 1936-1942
    • The fonds consists of 47,84 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. All material is accessible.

    The fonds Pomocný výbor pro uprchlíky, Paříž contains mainly of the correspondence of refugees, mainly from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland, with the Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés. The correspondence is sorted by surnames of the refugees. Czechoslovak refugees are organized separately. Box 322 contains correspondence of the Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the other refugee organisations like the Schutzverband deutscher Schriftsteller.

  14. Výbor pro postavení pomníku židovské náboženské obci Pardubice

    • Committee for the Erection of a Monument to the Jewish Religious Community of Pardubice / NAD 658

    The fonds is incomplete and contains only 1 book of minutes of the 1947-1948 meetings.

  15. Archiv města Napajedla

    • Napajedla Town Archives / NAD 670

    The fonds contains documents of the municipality of Napajedla, official books, files, and accounting material. The first records of Jews in Napajedla are mainly associated with the distillery. The distillery was managed by Jewish tenants for most of the 19th century. Information on Jews can be found in the fonds only in some documents from the Holocaust period: confiscated Jewish property - forced administration, rental of real estate, local ordinances and regulations concerning Jews and their property 1939–1945; internment of Napajedla citizens in concentration and prisoner of war camps, d...

  16. Národní arijská kulturní jednota, Praha

    • National Aryan Cultural Union, Prague
    • Nationalarische Union, Prag
    • NAKJ
    • NAD 677
    • Národní archiv
    • 677
    • English
    • 1939-1945
    • The collection consists out of 1.25 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents which are all accessible.

    The National Aryan Cultural Union (Národní arijská kulturní jednota, NAKJ) was founded on 24th May 1939, officially as a non political society "to improve the situation of the national culture, spirit and peoples behaviour according to modern aryan principles". The association opened 20 branches in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. Together with the fascist movements "Vlajka" (The Flag), "Národní tábor fašistická" (National Fascist Union) and "Fašistická garda" (Fascist guard) they unified in October 1939 to "Český národně socialistický tábor, ČNST" (Czech Nationalsocialist Union). In t...

  17. Okresní soud Tábor I.

    • District Court of Tábor I / NAD 69

    The fonds contains documents of the Tábor I District Court from the years 1850-1949 (1984), concerning the civil and criminal agendas, as well as the agenda for the establishment of new land registers. As part of the inheritance agenda (file no. D), there are the inheritance proceedings of Jews who died during World War II, for example in concentration camps, dealt with especially in 1946.

  18. Okresní úřad Sedlčany

    • Sedlčany District Office / NAD 7

    The fonds contains official books and files. The following documents are relevant: Conversion to the Roman Catholic Church and change of name Teresia Kohnová 1900; Jewish Religious Society 1904-1927, 1909-1937; Register of Jews: file 1940-1941 (A-K, L-W) with photographs; trade licenses 1940 (containing an inventory of Jewish property); Jewish religious communities 1938-1941; records of conversions 1938; The Record of Infectious Human Diseases 1940; Presidium files: Measures against agitation and political terror against Jewish citizens in connection with the exercise of their right to vote...

  19. Okresní úřad Kutná Hora

    • District Office of Kutná Hora / NAD 7

    The fonds originated from the activities of the political administrative office of first instance. It contains official books, file material, and accounting material. The fonds contains the census of 1921 from the judicial districts of Kutná Hora and Uhlířské Janovice.Documents on the history of Jews can mainly be found in the following documents: religious, federal and assembly matters, domicile especially in the 5th handling period (1936-1946), Groups III Security and VII Education; religion, marriage, registry and endowment matters, and matters; specifically, inv. no. 1381 VIII/19 Jewish...

  20. Okresní soud Bechyně

    • District Court in Bechyně / NAD 70

    The fonds contains documents of the Bechyně District Court from the years (1849) 1850-1949 concerning the civil and criminal agendas, as well as the agenda for the establishment of new land registers. Information on Jews can be found in expropriation documents ordered by the Gestapo during the Nazi occupation, and the inheritance agenda (file No D) of Jews perished in WW II in concentration camps dealt with in 1946.